Well Planned Life

Back during the Van der Spek April 1 sales (yes, I’m that far behind in my posting), I bought my third VDS customized binder.   So now, in addition to Cappuccino and Daisy , I now have Guinness.   (Why am I compelled to name each of my binders?) Guinness is made of the Nero nappa leather on the outside and the Barbie nappa on the inside.   Each has the contrasting stitching. The inside left has a secretarial pocket. The inside right is the standard pocket configuration. As far as content, the layout of my planner is still the same . What is different, as you may have noticed, is that this planner is the standard/personal size (25 mm rings), which isn’t uncommon in the planner world, but is uncommon in my world. Since Filofax first introduced the Compact binders back in 2011 , I have used them exclusively.   Carrying a compact allows me to streamline what I take out of the house with me, limiting me to only those things ...

A while back long time ago, a reader asked how I set up my project binders.   (You can check out some of my project binders here .)   It has taken me this long to write this post because I haven’t set up a project-specific binder in a while.   I have lots of ideas for special binders, but the reality of actually creating them, well, that’s a different story—I don’t seem to have as much time to do that these days.   (Oh, how I remember the days when I worked on nothing but setting up binders and section tabs and reorganizing my system …   Sometimes I miss those little projects, but being happy with my system is more important and allows me to devote my time to so many other things.)   Project binders—at least most—are one of those things that I have let go of, for the time being. However! I recently had the opportunity and need to set up another specific project binder.   So I took some pictures during the process, and here I will explain tha...

It’s been a little over a month since my last post.   Cappuccino has been busy keeping my crazy weekends organized and well planned.   (I have to say that I absolutely LOVE this binder.   It was worth every penny, and I have no desire to move out of it any time soon.)   Since first writing about my new Van der Spek binder, I have been to Philadelphia and New York City, done volunteer work (twice), worked a couple of weekends, gone to a Mother’s Day brunch, and gone back to Philadelphia.   Now she’s helping me to relax during my vacation at home. This is a list of things to I’d like to accomplish while I’m off this week.   But it’s a loose list, meaning if I don’t get to cross these items off my list, it’s okay—this is just what I would like to get done.   I started this list a few weeks ago.   Since my weekends have been so busy, there have been a lot of things that I didn’t get to (blogging is one of those things).   So I crea...